Generalities
It has a marked action on the veins of the lower bowels and pelvic organs causing engorged haemorrhoids. Veins of portal system are also engorged producing soreness and fulness of the liver and abdomen. Many of the symptoms which Aesculus produces are due to deranged liver or reflex from piles. It causes general venous stasis, making parts purple and puffy, varicose veins become purple. Everything is slowed down, digestion, heart, bowels. In addition to the feeling of fulness in internal parts, it produces sensation of HEAT, DRYNESS, STIFFNESS and ROUGHNESS in throat, nose, anus, etc. There is a characteristic backache which unfits the patient for business. Pains are sticking or flying all over, hot like lightning.
Worse
Morning on awakening. From any motion. Lying, stooping after stools; urinating. Cold air, and after washing in water. Winter. Standing.
Better
Cool; open air, bathing. Bleeding (Piles); kneeling. Continued exertion. Summer.
Mind
Gloomy and irritable; unable to fix his attention. Wake up with confusion of mind; bewildered, especially children.
Head
Bruised pain in occiput to the frontal region, with flushes of heat over occiput, neck and shoulders.
Eyes
Eyeballs feel heavy, dull, hot and sore, with lachrymation. Blood vessels enlarged.
Nose
Sensitive to cool inspired air, which causes burning, rawness and fluent coryza and sneezing. Obstruction of nose due to hepatic disorders. Congestive catarrh.
Mouth
Scalded feeling in tongue and mouth. Tongue thickly coated. Salivation. Cannot control the tongue so as to form words rightly. Taste sweet, bitter, metallic. Teeth as if covered with oil.
Throat
Follicular pharyngitis connected with hepatic congestion. Feeling of roughness, dryness, stitching or burning like fire on swallowing. Neuralgic pains in the fauces. Hawking of ropy mucus of sweetish taste.
Stomach
Pressure as from a stone, with gnawing, aching pain, about three hours after meals. Heart burn and gulping up of food after eating. Desire to vomit with constant distress and burning.
Abdomen
Throbbing deep in abdomen (hypogastrium and pelvis). Tenderness and fulness in the region of liver. Jaundice.
Rectum
Stools, dry hard; of several colours. Feels full of small sticks. Piles with sharp shooting pains up the back; blind and bleeding, purple painful, external; worse standing and walking. Constipation; hard, dry, knotty, white stools. Pains long after stools. As if a bug crawling from anus. Stools first part hard and black, then white and soft. Burning in anus, with chills up and down the back. Painful constrictions; as of a knife sawing up and down. Piles worse during climaxis.
Urinary Organs
Frequent scanty urination, urine muddy, dark, hot.
Male
Discharge of prostatic fluid at every stool and urination.
Females
Constant throbbing behind symphysis pubis. Leucorrhoea with lameness of back across sacro-iliac joint and aching in knees. Leucorrhoea; dark, yellow, sticky, corroding worse after menses.
Chest
Feels constricted, hot feeling in. Cough depending upon hepatic disorders. Pain around heart in haemorrhoidal subjects. Audible palpitation, when pulsation extends to extremities.
Back
Laming, dull lumbar pain. Small of the back gives out. Pain as if to break, has to make repeated efforts at rising, worse walking and stooping. Bruised pain affecting sacrum and hips.
Extremities
Aching and soreness in limbs. Paralytic heaviness, of arms, spine, feet. Hands and feet swell, and become red after washing. Spine feels weak.
Sleep
Disposition to stretch and yawn.
Related
Aloe; Coll; Pulsatilla
Complementary
Carb-v; Lach; Mur-ac.
He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.
He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.